“Hwuuu…”

 

The distant sound of someone sobbing echoed familiarly.

 

Was a banshee crying again?

 

The voices that sounded were quite a bit different from one, though.

 

“Hwuuuuu…”

 

“You can stop.”

 

Oh, was it just a dream?

 

A dark room slowly became clearer. I’d seen this room before.

 

As the darkness surrounding me gradually ebbed away, I saw a woman crying, standing in front of a balcony and rubbing the heel of her palm against her chest. A man was moving closer to her.

 

I couldn’t see their faces, but a strange sense of familiarity washed over me. The thought of having met this couple somewhere else passed me by.

 

Oh, that’s right. I had had a dream like this once before.

 

Yes, in another place, at another time, that woman had been smiling wickedly, and that man…

 

“Isn’t it time you stopped with the bad acting?”

 

The woman quit her wailing. “What if I don’t want to?”

 

“Ah, you’re really driving me crazy.”

 

“As expected, it doesn’t work on you,” I couldn’t see it, but I could feel the woman sneering. “You’re so annoying, you know that, right?”

 

The sadness ailing her vanished in an instant, something menacing gracing her features instead. I still couldn’t see what she looked like, but I felt the aggression dripping from her echoing and settling in my bones.

 

The man looming over her seemed to be very angry. “You turned the court banquet into a damn circus show. Have you no shame?”

 

“That girl was asking for it. What did you want me to do?”

 

“Did you fight with her just cause she asked you a question? Why don’t you pick a fight with the entire world then?”

 

“You weren’t even there, so what do you know? Right, it must’ve been your little sister that told you. Of course, she must have chosen her side again. She always does.”

 

The woman gave a bitter laugh, the air turning sullen.

 

“Watch your mouth.”

 

“Oh, don’t deny it, you know it’s true. And what if I don’t watch my mouth? Will you hit me? Don’t even joke around, because we both know you won’t.”

 

I was starting to worry a little for the woman.

 

She was deliberately targeting her opponent’s weak spots, his rage already reaching its breaking point. The harsh breaths he took was the only sound that could be heard in this dark and empty room.

 

“You’re such a bad f**king girl.”

 

“And you’re so handsome,” she swooned, ridicule but also honesty honeying her sweet voice.

 

“Consider it an honor then, if you’re willing to admit it.”

 

“Hah! An honor? You?”

 

“Anything you’re dissatisfied with? Tell me, since I’m your so-called husband.”

 

“I’m dissatisfied with your existence itself.”

 

dissatisfied with your existence,

 

The mood was strange.

 

they couldn’t take

 

any minute now, storming out of the door if not taking swings at each other before that. Instead, it was the distance between them that was dwindling, something I couldn’t quite put my finger on warming up the

 

almost chest to

 

appearance you’re

 

like that, it didn’t mean anything. There are a hell of a lot more attractive men much better-looking than

 

here, then? Hurry up and go back

 

“You’re a damn j*rk.”

 

resemble each other, right?” The man came closer, as if there was still space left between them.

 

don’t participate

 

“Hell no!”

 

“Then I won’t either!”

 

man’s hair and dug her nails into the back of his neck,

 

her size,

 

couldn’t help but wonder where I was, who these people were, and why I was here, as I took in

 

room had been heating up for a while now, and the sounds of heavy breaths and desperate kissing filled the dark chamber. The only source of light came from the moon raining down

 

macabre. Sad and hopeless

 

woman’s eyes

 

me. I was only a ghost in this dream, after all. Someone from

 

somehow, that woman smiled at me—a meaningless,

 

smashed into pieces. The face I hadn’t been

 

The woman was me.

 

de Borgia, that’s

 

Then, that man is…

 

to make sense of it, but it was as if someone had turned me to stone. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t talk. I

 

man and the woman vanished and I lost myself to the shadows

 

***

 

my eyes had me twitching, trying to

 

came to me was the heavy feeling in my head. I tried to lift my hand, but it dropped down to the bed

 

me here?

 

I slowly woke up, I turned my eyes to my right, the feeling of someone else’s

 

I wanted to cry.

 

overjoyed to see him safe and lying next to me, looking like he hadn’t just gone through hell and back, but

 

looked at him, taking him in, my eyes leaving no part of

 

He looked miserable, though.

 

and run my fingers through his bangs, the movement taking everything out

 

voice was low and hoarse, almost a whisper in the soft breeze. “Why didn’t you

 

thinking of anything. It felt like it didn’t really

 

in my previous life and everything I had done in this life, all of it flashed

 

my own body

 

with was low and hoarse as

 

“What…?”

 

really been me. All I was, was an illusion. Once it broke, everyone changed.

 

well, something that had revealed itself to me time

 

wasn’t what they had wanted me to be. When my brother had had enough of

 

always been like

 

“Always.”

 

it wasn’t me he was directing it at. “Were all the people around you

 

I’m already in a situation where I’m hated without doing anything.

 

eye with my numb finger, gently at first until I pressed hard on the bone of his cheek, wondering if he hated

 

silly joke, Izek still kept on gazing at me with that

 

could embrace me fully, enveloping me in his warmth, but he did

 

putting my own arm around his wide torso and burying my head in the juncture where his shoulder and neck met, breathing in his masculine

 

didn’t understand why my

 

dream, but I didn’t remember

 

look at me like that. Because it’s not your fault. It’s not always all about

 

arrogant man, I

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